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[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Five years ago.

[BeBMan]

Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find

Four pigs - Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony and Ivory - were trained to use an arcade-style joystick to steer an on-screen cursor into walls.

Researchers said the fact that the pigs understood the connection between the stick and the game "is no small feat".

And the pigs even continued playing when the food reward dispenser broke - apparently for the social contact.

Usually, the pigs would be given a food pellet for "winning" the game level. But during testing, it broke - and they kept clearing the game levels when encouraged by some of the researchers' kind words.

(...)

Oh great, another bastion of man over pig superiority is history now

How long until pigs will rule everything???

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56023720

[Thoth]

How to make a SW review :

We need more reviewers like this.

[Uncle Sparky]

How come this guy isn't on Trump's legal team? Doesn't Trump realize libtards love small furry animals?

[BlackCat]

How to make a SW review :

[BeBMan]

Lawyer gets stuck with cat filter during virtual court case


Texas lawyer Rod Ponton was left flummoxed when he discovered his face was appearing as a cat during a court session on Zoom.

As his assistant tried to rectify the issue, he can be heard saying, "I'm here live, I'm not a cat."

Tweeting about the incident, Judge Roy Ferguson, who presided over the session, said it showed "the legal community's effort to continue representing their clients in these challenging times".

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-56005428

[Uncle Sparky]

World's biggest deadbeat continues the ripoffs... Didn't Trump supporters send him millions for 'campaign expenses'?

[N35t0r]

I'd love it if they didn't extradite him, but let's face it, the UK isn't that far from the US wrt being against wikileaks and Assange. The fact that they denied extradition on grounds that the us can (relatively) easily address will mean that unless the Biden Administration somehow wants to stop the request (wish i don't really think likely), or if for some reason the US thinks that promising to treat Assange like a human being sets too much of an unwanted precedent, then his extradition is just a matter of time.

[Uncle Sparky]

I read the decision. I also discussed it with a friend of mine, who is a retired legal council for the Canadian Department of Justice. He believes that they made the right decision (refusing extradition) but for the wrong reasons. I agree.

[N35t0r]

Assange will not be extradited to the US.

If you read the decision, the UK pretty much had all the intention of extraditing Assange, only they wouldn't have him over for him to essentially kill himself.

[DARcness]

Band's frontman reported dead at the end of last year. I think I last saw him playing a few years ago at the Senate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZcFdPhX7SI

[Uncle Sparky]

Assange will not be extradited to the US.

The ability of the US to unleash violence against foreign populations depends on its domestic citizenry not being aware of the consequences. Consent for the Vietnam war, for example, began to crumble when US citizens saw footage from the conflict of screaming children with their clothes burned away by napalm, or became aware of the hundreds who were slaughtered by US forces in the My Lai massacre. Since then, the US government has become more adept at managing media coverage, including the embedding of journalists in military units. The use of drone strikes – drastically accelerated by Barack Obama, who used them 10 times more than his predecessor – killed unknown numbers of civilians who remained largely anonymous. Civilian deaths from airstrikes in Afghanistan increased by 330% in four years under Donald Trump, and he not only upped the drone strikes, he revoked a policy to publish the number of civilians killed by drone strikes outside of war zones.
“The US war machine depends on being able to airbrush out of existence the brutal human realities. If innocent civilians can be silently killed without consequences, then there is nothing to stop even more suffering the same fate.

[Uncle Sparky]

Just a flash in the pan...

[Broken_Erika]

Flash Player is dead

Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest


Adobe Flash Player, the browser plug-in that brought rich animations and interactivity to the early web, has officially reached the end of its life.

Released in 1996, Flash was once one of the most popular ways for people to stream videos and play games online.

But it was plagued with security problems and failed to transition to the smartphone era.

Adobe will no longer offer security updates for Flash and has urged people to uninstall it.

It will also stop videos and animations running in its Flash Player from 12 January.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55497353

[Uncle Sparky]

City block blown up in downtown Nashville Tennessee. It was a white guy. Nothing to see here.

'Merca!